1 min readOct 9, 2020
You flip between four concepts willy-nilly here:
1. Human life exists
2. Carbon-based life exists
3. Intelligent life exists
4. Life exists
The fourth, more general property has little to do with the anthropic principle. It is a consequence of the Roger's Theorem, which is a corollary to Kleen's Recursion Theorem ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleene%27s_recursion_theorem ) which is true in any space-time continuum where it is possible to construct arbitrarily complex machines to compute arithmetic.